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Its the slowest week of the year for gadget news. Christmas is in the rearview, and its a few days until the new year. After that, its a straight shot to CES and then MWC. Meantime, best weve got going for us are a handful of rumors, including a peek…

There is entirely too much content out thereso much so that plenty of folks find it quite literally overwhelming. And trying to keep track of all those horror movies and melodramatic reality shows and whodunnits starring Chris Evans in a cable knit sweater (o…

Google is bolstering Stadia Pro's 'free' game lineup once more, although you might not be quite so thrilled with the consequences. The game streaming service is adding both the adventure sequel Rise of the Tomb Raider and the rhythm title Thumper to its no-ex…

Just a couple weeks ago, Google announced its first Pixel feature drop that added a bunch of new software upgrades including automatic call screening, better quality video calls in Duo, and more. But now that the update has finally arrived, it appears Google …

The Wii Shopping Channel will never see another update day. iTunes was stripped for parts. MoviePass has been snuffed out like a candle in the wind, burning at both ends, being thrown at a customers face. Let us remember the apps and services we lost this yea…

France's Competition Authority has fined Google 150 million euros ($166.4 million) for anti-competitive behavior, as well as having unclear advertising rules on Google Ads.  Besides paying the fine, the FCA expects Google to clarify the rules for Google Ads,…

A 31 decision Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The federal labor board ruled this week that employers can block workers from using email to organize, in a decision that companies, including Google, have asked for. The National Labor Relations Board…

Google Photos has received several big updates recently, but now the app has a full-on messaging service that you can use to swap photos and carry on conversations between your contacts. Google says this isnt meant to replace or compete with other messaging…

Over the years, Google’s various whitepapers, detailing how the company solves specific problems at scale, have regularly spawned new startup ecosystems and changed how other enterprises think about scaling their own tools. Today, the company is publishing a …

Google has fired another worker-activist, Kathryn Spiers. Spier, who worked on the platform security team, was generally tasked with writing code for browser notifications to automatically notify employees or guidelines and company policies while surfing the …